Mount Albert is a New Zealand Parliamentary electorate, returning one Member of Parliament to the New Zealand House of Representatives. It has been represented by David Shearer of the Labour Party since a by-election on 13 June 2009. Between the 1981 general election and her resignation from Parliament on 17 April 2009 (to take up a position as head of the United Nations Development Program^[1]), it was represented by Helen Clark, who served as Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1999 until 2008.

Mount Albert covers a segment of western Auckland City, stretching from Kingsland on the eastern periphery of the central city down to Sandringham and extending as far as Avondale on the seat's western edge. Changes brought about by an electoral redistribution after the 2006 census saw a swap of suburbs with neighbouring Auckland Central - Newton on the city fringe being returned to Auckland Central having been moved out in 1999 and Point Chevalier being drafted in.

The present incarnation of Mount Albert dates to 1999, when the addition of the Mount Roskill seat necessitated slicing off from Owairaka the suburbs clustered around the north side of Manukau Harbour. The name Mount Albert had been out of use for only three years - before Owairaka was drawn up ahead of the change to Mixed Member Proportional voting in 1996, the Mount Albert electorate had been part of the New Zealand electoral landscape for fifty years, having been first contested at the 1946 election.

Mount Albert is notable for being contested by two Prime Ministers - the former Prime Minister, Helen Clark MP for Mount Albert between 1981 and 2009, and former Prime Minister Sir Robert Muldoon tried his hand at claiming the seat from the Labour Party in 1954, without any luck. No candidate from the National Party has managed to do what Sir Robert could not - Mount Albert's inner-city, working-class, multicultural makeup lends to it being one of the Labour Party's safest seats.

Contents 1 Members of Parliament for Mount Albert 2 Election results 2.1 2009 by-election 2.2 2008 election 2.3 2005 election 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Members of Parliament for Mount Albert

Name	Party	Elected	Left Office	Reason
Arthur Shapton Richards	Labour	1946	1947	died
Warren Freer	Labour	1947 by-election, 1949, 1951, 1954,1957, 1960, 1963, 1966, 1969, 1972, 1975, 1978	1981	retired
Helen Clark	Labour	1981, 1984, 1987, 1990, 1993	1996	electorate abolished, contested Owairaka instead
Helen Clark	Labour	1999, 2002, 2005, 2008	17 April 2009	resigned to become head of United Nations Development Program
David Shearer	Labour	2009 byelection	incumbent

[edit] Election results

[edit] 2009 by-election

Mount Albert by-election, 2009
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	David ShearerY	12,613	63.10%	+3.81%
	National	Melissa Lee	3,426	17.14%	-11.7%
	Green	Russell Norman	2,418	12.09%	+6.15%
	ACT	John Boscawen	943	4.72%	+2.35%
	Bill and Ben	Ben Boyce	151	0.76%
	Legalise Cannabis	Dakta Green	85	0.43%
	Kiwi	Simonne Dyer	85	0.43%	0%
	United Future	Judy Turner	82	0.41%	-1.27%
	Libertarianz	Julian Pistorius	35	0.18%
	Independent	Jim Bagnell	22	0.11%
	Independent	Ari Baker	15	0.08%
	Human Rights	Anthony Joseph James Van den Heuvel	14	0.07%
	People Before Profit	Malcom France	13	0.07%
	Independent	Jackson James Wood	9	0.05%
	People's Choice Party	Kane Rusty	5	0.03%
		Informal votes	76	0.03%
Majority			10,351	45.95%	+15.50%
Turnout			19,992
	Labour hold		Swing	+3.81%

[edit] 2008 election

General Election 2008: Mount Albert[2]
Notes: Green background denotes the winner of the electorate vote. Pink background denotes a candidate elected from their party list. A Y or N denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Y Helen Elizabeth Clark		20,157	59.29%	-7.26%	14,894	42.60%	-11.73%
	National	Ravi Musuku		9,806	28.84%	+9.21%	12,468	35.66%	+9.31%
	Green	Jon Carapiet		2,019	5.94%	+1.22%	3,846	11.00%	+1.73%
	ACT	Kathleen McCabe		1,392	4.09%	+1.72%	1,227	3.51%	+1.49%
	Kiwi	Christian Dawson		249	.73%	N/A	157	.45%	N/A
	Pacific	Milo Siilata		234	.69%	N/A	273	.78%	N/A
	Human Rights	Anthony Joseph van Den Heuvel		87	.26%	N/A
	RONZ	Dave Llewell		53	.16%	+.16%	16	.05%	+.03%
	NZ First	none		N/A	N/A	-2.37%	936	2.68%	-.70%
	Māori	-					273	0.78	-
	Progressive	-					244	0.70	-
	United Future	-					232	0.66	-
	Bill and Ben	-					132	0.38	-
	Legalise Cannabis	-					101	0.29	-
	Family Party	-					92	0.26	-
	Alliance	-					19	0.05	-
	RAM	-					19	0.05	-
	Libertarianz	-					16	0.05	-
	Workers Party	-					11	0.03	-
	NZ Democrats	-					7	0.02	-
Informal votes				410			256
Total Valid votes				33,997			34,963
	Labour hold		Majority	10,351

[edit] 2005 election

General Election 2005: Mount Albert[3]
Notes: Green background denotes the winner of the electorate vote. Pink background denotes a candidate elected from their party list. A Y or N denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Y Helen Clark		20,918	66.55%	-3.03%	17,501	54.33%
	National	Ravi Musuku		6,169	19.63%	-	8,488	26.35%
	Green	Jon Carapiet		1,485	4.72%	-	2,985	9.27%
	NZ First	Julian Batchelor		746	2.37%		1,089	3.38%	-
	ACT	David Seymour		746	2.37%	-	651	2.02%
	United Future	Tony Gordon		529	1.68%		649	2.01%	-
	Progressive	Jenny Wilson		407	1.29%		525	1.59%	-
	Destiny	Anne Williamson		337	1.07%		157	.49%	-
	Independent	James Bagnall		83	.26%	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
	Anti-Capitalist	Daphna Whitmore		79	.25%	-.16%
	Independent	Anthony Ravlich		47	.15%	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
	Direct Democracy	Howard Ponga		30	0.10%		10	0.03%
	Independent	Erik Taylor		29	0.09%	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
	Māori	none					168	0.52%
	Legalise Cannabis	none					43	0.13%
	Christian Heritage	none					40	0.12%
	Alliance	none					22	0.07%
	Family Rights	none					20	0.06%	-
	Libertarianz	none					19	0.06%
	RONZ	none					8	0.02%
	99 MP	none					6	0.02%
	NZ Democrats	none					3	0.01%
	One NZ	none					0	0%
Informal votes				316			130
Total Valid votes				31,747			32,342
	Labour hold		Majority	14,749

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Electorate Profile Parliamentary Library

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